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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

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maria_egnatz_alexander's review

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

This was a challenging book to get through. I’m a white women who has read lots of books regarding racial disparity before. The testimonies and information are presented very matter-of-fact which really emphasized the calloused business nature slavery was given. There were many times I turned off the audiobook because even listening to it felt disrespectful. I think it’s important to know the reality of the past do we understand how we arrived at our present. That said, I don’t know when it would ever feel appropriate to hear the things white Americans have forced on Black people as a whole. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, and Murder